Hardware Is intel going to keep the upped core counts when the release cannonlake

[Dominator211]

Coffee lake is in introducing more cores I am wondering if Intel is going to keep the higher cores for cannonlake. I ask these questions because I am looking to buy a Intel nuc and I'm not sure I should get a 14nm one

 

[Originality]

Let me check my Magic 8 Ball....... "ask again later".

I guess wait until Intel announces/leaks something to find out.

 

[KiiWii]

1... million... cores.

 

[Youkai]

Are there actually lot of Programms yet who use all cores properly ?

I know at DX11 times (back than in the stoneage ) even the second core was hardly used at all ... so using 4 or even 32 cores for a dx11 game you do no difference ... actually it would be better to have one single 4+ghz core than a million 1ghz cores XD

I read that with DX12 and Vulkan it does work better depending on how good the game/programm was actually programmed but I don't know how many "well programmed" games and programs are out there yet to make it worth it.
Don't get me wrong I have an I7 quad core as well instead of some old single core but I am not sure if you need more than 4 cores yet, I am not even sure if you need more than 2 yet

 

[Pleng]

It depends on what you're doing... Unless gaming has changed a lot since I last read up about it then, no, more than a couple of cores probably isn't going to improve performance much. But if you're running multiple development environments, cross-compiling, browsing multiple websites, hosting network services and running VMs then the more cores the better, pretty much.